IP 88-4 Dialogues in teacher education.
Abstract
Included in this volume are a series of dialogues about various approaches to teacher education. Each dialogue consists of a brief sketch of a particular teacher education program, along with a response from the director of that program. The sketches, though organized differently, tend to describe similar program features: purposes, context, constituents, practices, and the views of good teaching that seem to be implicit in these purposes and practices. The responses are more various, addressing issues of particular salience to particular programs. The sketches were prepared during 1985-86, to help the National Center for Research on Teacher Education prepare its five-year research agenda, and were intended to stimulate thought more than to thoroughly portray particular programs. They are presented here along with responses in an effort to further facilitate thought about teacher education. Included in this volume are dialogues about preservice and inservice programs as well as programs designed to help first-year teachers and an alternate route program.